Associations to the word «Touchdown»

Wiktionary

TOUCHDOWN, noun. (American football) (Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. Analogous to a try in rugby.
TOUCHDOWN, noun. (aviation) The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
TOUCHDOWN, noun. (rugby) A try
TOUCHDOWN DANCE, noun. A small dance performed to celebrate a success, by the one who succeeded.
TOUCHDOWN DANCES, noun. Plural of touchdown dance

Dictionary definition

TOUCHDOWN, noun. A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line.
TOUCHDOWN, noun. A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats